Blue Snowman (also known as
The Snowman, real name
Byrna Brilyant) is a
fictional character, a
supervillain in the who appears primarily as an enemy of
Wonder Woman. Blue Snowman is a woman disguised as a man who uses the invention of "blue snow," a special form of
precipitation that freezes everything it touches.
She battled
Wonder Woman and was a member of
Villainy Inc.
Fictional character biography
Byrna Brilyant's scientist father died while working on his invention of "blue snow," a special form of precipitation that freezes everything it touches. This invention was intended to "serve humanity," although precisely how seems rather vague. Thinking to put her father's work to more profitable use, Byrna creates the masculine identity of the
Snow Man and unleashes the petrifying power of blue snow upon the farming community of Fair Weather Valley, demanding each farmer's "life savings" in return for the chemical antidote that will free crops, livestock, and people from the snow's effects. The Blue Snow Man is discovered in "his" mountain sanctuary by
Wonder Woman, who forces "him" to defrost the valley.
Like many of Wonder Woman's enemies, Brilyant is sentenced to prison on the Amazon penal colony Transformation Island, but in 1948 she and seven other female super-villains escape and pool their talents as
Villainy Inc.; led by the Saturnian slaver
Eviless, the evil eight are again defeated by Wonder Woman. In this...
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